Winners since 1960
2005-10-13 13:22
Stockholm - Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960.
2004: Elfriede Jelinek, Austria
2003: JM Coetzee, South Africa
2002: Imre Kertesz, Hungary
2001: VS Naipaul, Trinidad-born Briton
2000: Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French
1999: Guenter Grass, Germany
1998: Jose Saramago, Portugal
1997: Dario Fo, Italy
1996: Wislawa Szymborska, Poland
1995: Seamus Heaney, Ireland
1994: Kenzaburo Oe, Japan
1993: Toni Morrison, United States
1992: Derek Walcott, St Lucia
1991: Nadine Gordimer, South Africa
1990: Octavio Paz, Mexico
1989: Camilo Jose Cela, Spain
1988: Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
1987: Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born American
1986: Wole Soyinka, Nigeria
1985: Claude Simon, France
1984: Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakia
1983: William Golding, Britain
1982: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia
1981: Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born Briton
1980: Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-born American
1979: Odysseus Elytis, Greece
1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born American
1977: Vicente Aleixandre, Spain
1976: Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American
1975: Eugenio Montale, Italy
1974: Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson, Sweden
1973: Patrick White, British-born Australian
1972: Heinrich Boell, West Germany
1971: Pablo Neruda, Chile
1970: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia
1969: Samuel Beckett, Ireland
1968: Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
1967: Miguel A Asturias, Guatemala
1966: Shmuel Y Agnon, Polish-born Israeli, and Nelly Sachs, German-born Swede
1965: Mikhail Sholokhov, Russia
1964: Jean-Paul Sartre, France (declined award)
1963: Giorgos Seferis, Turkish-born Greek
1962: John Steinbeck, United States
1961: Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia
1960: Saint-John Perse, French
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